{"id":284,"date":"2006-01-26T03:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=284"},"modified":"2006-01-26T03:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T03:54:00","slug":"read-my-blog-get-free-stuff-part-2-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/26\/read-my-blog-get-free-stuff-part-2-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Read my blog. Get free stuff. part 2, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today, I walked to Walgreens at lunch and bought an issue of Cosmopolitan.  Several of my female friends have told me that all men should read Cosmo to better understand women.  So I decided to see what it was all about.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m only 40 pages through (and the first 26 were ads) so I can&#8217;t post a review yet.  But I&#8217;ll say this: I had a subscription to Maxim for a year, and already it&#8217;s more entertaining than that magazine.  I typically would flip through each Maxim issue in about 5 minutes and then toss it in the garbage.<\/p>\n<p>FREE STUFF:  The Cosmo issue contained a coupon good for a free panty from the &#8220;Pink&#8221; collection at Victoria&#8217;s Secret.  Good until February 14, for a bikini, string bikini, thong or v-string up to $7.50.  Obviously this is not a coupon I plan on using, so first female blog reader to e-mail me and ask for it (paul at paulryburn dot com) gets it.  You don&#8217;t have to model the free panty for me, although I probably will be picturing you in it in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I e-mailed a friend of mine, and commented, &#8220;If there&#8217;s an Italian version of Maxim, it&#8217;s too bad there&#8217;s not a Romanian version of Cosmo.&#8221;  Well, it turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.ro\/ian06\/home.asp\">there is<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I went back to Rio Loco tonight, and had the tortilla soup and an a la carte order of cheese enchiladas.  And, of course, margaritas.  Tasty.  I want to add a couple of more menu items to my list of stuff to try:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Juliza and Kristy Special: pork ribs, slices of steak, chicken, shrimp, Mexican sausage and bacon cooked with bell peppers, onions and tomatoes.  Served on a hot skillet, with a side order of Mexican rice and beans.  Garnished with lettuce, sour cream, pico de gallo, guacamole, and choice of flour or corn tortilla.<\/li>\n<li>Pollo Loco Tapatio: Grilled breast of chicken topped with bacon, mushrooms and cheese, with beans and rice, garnished with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, pico, and flour tortillas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not going there tomorrow night though.  I have officially busted my budget for the week.  Looks like tomorrow is frozen dinner night in front of the TV.<\/p>\n<p>Other stuff going on around town:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/drinkingliberally.org\/locations.html#mem\">Drinking Liberally<\/a> has moved their weekly meetings to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dishmemphis.com\/\">dish<\/a> on Thursday nights.  They&#8217;re still at 6:30.  I haven&#8217;t been in a while but it&#8217;s a good group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blues.org\/ibc\/index.php4\">International Blues Challenge<\/a> is this Thursday-Saturday in various clubs on Beale Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The South Main Trolley Art Tour is this Friday night from 6 to 9.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Swig is doing &#8217;80s night this Saturday.  Looks like this will be a recurring theme on the last Saturday of every month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; And the new East Bumblefuck Flying Saucer is now open on Germantown Parkway.  I&#8217;ll try to stop by there next week after work for a beer, since it&#8217;s only a couple of miles from my office off Whitten.  I don&#8217;t have high hopes for the place, but if it runs the Fox &amp; Hound out of business I&#8217;m all for it.  And it will give the people who live in Cordova\/Germantown\/Collierville a Saucer to go to so they don&#8217;t come downtown and annoy me.  I know Downtown Saucer regulars who are going out there and buying a UFO card so they can drink another 200 beers and have a plate on the wall at both Saucers.  To me that ranks right up there with making a 5-foot ball out of rubber bands in terms of accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>All right, time to go read my Cosmo and see what I can learn about women.  If there are any major insights I&#8217;ll post &#8217;em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today, I walked to Walgreens at lunch and bought an issue of Cosmopolitan. Several of my female friends have told me that all men should read Cosmo to better understand women. So I decided to see what it was all about. I&#8217;m only 40 pages through (and the first 26 were ads) so I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/26\/read-my-blog-get-free-stuff-part-2-and-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Read my blog. Get free stuff. part 2, and more&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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